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Recent Examples of dramedy
Luke and Lorelai were played by Scott Patterson and Lauren Graham in the quirky dramedy Gilmore Girls, which ran from 2000 to 2007, first on The WB and then on The CW at the end of its run.
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Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Netflix picked up Danny Brocklehurst and Joe Gilgun’s dramedy about a band of misfits in August ahead of the launch of Season 6 on Sky, and since then Brassic has been killing it on the platform.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2024
The dramedy series, which ran from 2004 to 2012 on ABC, won seven Primetime Emmys and three Golden Globes.
—Michaela Zee, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
The romantic dramedy stars Jack Lemmon as a nebbish office drone known for lending out his place for bosses to take their mistresses.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
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Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Netflix picked up Danny Brocklehurst and Joe Gilgun’s dramedy about a band of misfits in August ahead of the launch of Season 6 on Sky, and since then Brassic has been killing it on the platform.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2024
The dramedy series, which ran from 2004 to 2012 on ABC, won seven Primetime Emmys and three Golden Globes.
—Michaela Zee, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
The romantic dramedy stars Jack Lemmon as a nebbish office drone known for lending out his place for bosses to take their mistresses.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramedy
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By the way, the period around the movie, roughly 1998 to 2001, had so many teen comedies.Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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And to be fair to Reynolds, discerning comedy and drama has become a gray area for Hollywood.Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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If that sounds less than promising, even for a deadpan Romanian slice-of-life tragicomedy, go ahead and make the mistake of skipping this one.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
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The jury cited his skill in crafting a tragicomedy against the backdrop of social upheaval.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Simplistic binaries might make for powerful melodrama, where the world is divided into good and evil.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce.New York Times, New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Gaga would be seen as a key component of what Phillips wants to do with this sequel as well, in terms of integrating old-fashioned musical numbers into the psychodrama.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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In director Jamie Lloyd’s electric and minimalist Broadway update of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1990s musical based on a ‘50s movie, the former Pussycat Doll nails the comedy of a camp diva — inhabiting former ingenue Norma’s delusion and ego without ever losing sight of her sincerity.EW Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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While many shows saw their grosses fall from last week, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical had the highest gross of its run so far – a promising sign for a new musical in a tough environment – bringing in $719,680 and playing to a capacity of 83 percent.Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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Here is where the films of Mike Leigh, a master of human tragedy and everyday comedy, land on a scale of tragic-comic circumstances.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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This monumental tragedy about today and tomorrow used its size and awe to burrow bold ideas into the multiplex.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The musical comedy, based on the popular Apple TV+ series, will open in January at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2024
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Two days before Hilty and Simard opened the best new musical comedies in ages, Vogue sat down with them at the cavernous Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to discuss camp, spookiness, and their paths to Death Becomes Her.Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Dramedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramedy. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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